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Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API

Despite the speed focus, Google says Nano Banana 2 Lite still delivers reliable prompt following, consistent character rendering, and readable text in generated images. Beyond developer platforms, the ...
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Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak

After a two-week suspension, the U.S. government has lifted export controls on Anthropic's second most powerful AI model, Fable 5, making it available worldwide again. The less restricted version, ...
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Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data

Meta is limiting how its engineers use Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to prevent outputs from these AI tools from ending up in its own training data. According to internal documents ...
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Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in

Worried about rising costs, some Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models to build smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. That's according to a report from The Information.
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents Microsoft is planning yet another overhauled version of Copilot, ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents Microsoft is planning yet another overhauled version of Copilot, ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week, according to an internal memo reported by The Information. The rule took ...
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AI and society

Read full article about: San Francisco's AI boom is pricing out six-figure tech workers who can't find rent under $5,000 The AI boom in San Francisco is pushing the cost of living so high that even ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Read full article about: How easily can Russian propaganda fool AI models? A new benchmark finds out The Institute of the Estonian Language has released a benchmark measuring how susceptible AI ...
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Meta's new AI model predicts how your brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech

A new AI model from Meta predicts how the human brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech. In tests, it often matched the typical brain response better than any single person's scan. Brain research ...
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Elon Musk admits xAI "was not built right first time around," launches full restructuring

Elon Musk's AI company xAI is going through a major restructuring. Musk acknowledged on X that the company "was not built right first time around" and is now being rebuilt from the foundations up.
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At the launch of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical, Anthropic co-founder says AI models show signs of introspection

Canadian AI developer and Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah presented Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" alongside him. True to Anthropic's brand, Olah couldn't resist suggesting that ...